Re: Call to maintainers: GNOME 2.31 to ship GTK 2.90

[Steve Frécinaux <nudrema gmail com>]

On 06/15/2010 12:11 PM, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le lundi 14 juin 2010 à 23:17 +0200, Andy Wingo a écrit :
> > People can do what they like of course, and I recall back when GStreamer
> > used to compile against GTK+ 1.2 or the GObject in 2.0. But from a bug
> > management perspective, having to always ask what GTK+ a user has
> > compiled against is complicated, and they might not always know if the
> > dependency tree is deep -- and in just such a case, a maintainer will
> > sometimes find that the user inadvertantly linked against 2.x /and/ 3.x
> > (due to transitive dependencies).
>
> Which will seriously break unless people are willing to add versioned
> symbols to GTK+.

It would also break with versioned symbols as some struct layouts have 
changed between gtk2 and gtk3